Preseason AP Poll Did An Incredible Job Picking The Sweet Sixteen

While the big story in the NCAA
Tournament's round of 16 is the low-seeded Cinderellas. The rest
of the field is filled with teams that were projected to be among
the top 16 teams in the country before the season even started.

Of the top 14 teams in the Associated Press preseason poll, ten
are still alive in the NCAA Tournament. And among the top ten
teams in the preseason poll, only Kentucky (preseason #3) and
North Carolina State (preseason #6) are not in the Sweet Sixteen.

At the other end of the spectrum, five of the final 16 teams were
not ranked at all in the preseason poll, with only two of those
teams receiving any votes at all. Here are the preseason rankings
of all 16 teams (seed in parentheses)...